Leftist geography professor at taxpayer-funded university rails at students over shutdown

9:35 AM 10/07/2013 Eric Owens Education Editor

Last week, a geography professor at the public, taxpayer-funded University of Wisconsin-La Crosse used a required assignment in one of her courses to wage a campaign against Republicans, blaming them entirely for the government shutdown over federal spending.

Some of the data gathering assignment will be impossible to complete until the Republican/tea party controlled House of Representatives agrees to fund the government. The Census website, for example, is closed. Please do what you can on the assignment. Those parts that youre unable to do because of the shutdown will have to wait until Congress decides we actually need a government. Please listen to the news and be prepared to turn in the assignment quickly once our nation re-opens.

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Trained in geography at Clark University, I have studied gender and land access in Mali, municipal climate politics in the US and, most recently, the relationship between race and the local food movement.
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Let the sleazeball have her say. Idiots like her are free to stick their feet in their own mouths. Once people figure out that shutdown is the best thing that could happen to partially paralyze the Kenyan tyrant and his band of criminals, the taxpayers should push for its continuance till the end of the regime of BO. If it takes until 2016, so be it. It is certainly a path superior to the one we were on. Let the truckers crash the White House gates to wake up and rid the country of the head of the snake.

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posted on 10/08/2013 7:51:05 AM PDT
by Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)

Rachel has a B.A. from McGill University in Montreal where she studied Political Science and Developing Area Studies. She spent several years in Niger, West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer and then in Washington D.C. working on international development policy before going to Clark University for an M.A. in International Development and Social Change. Working first with Dianne Rocheleau for her M.A., she remained at Clark to get her Ph.D. in Geography under the supervision of David Angel.

When not attached to her laptop or doing fieldwork, Rachel likes knitting, yoga, running, reading fiction and enjoying the city with her significant other, Arun. And when the season permits, she loves to garden. She plans to construct a rain garden, plant flowers and grasses native to the praire and grow lots of vegetables.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.)  U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) today released a new oversight report, The National Science Foundation: Under the Microscope that raises serious questions regarding the agencys management and priorities. The report identifies more than $1.2 billion the National Science Foundation (NSF) has lost due to waste, fraud, duplication and mismanagement and an additional $1.7 billion in unspent funds.

The federal shutdown may put on ice a massive, ongoing research project led by Northern Illinois University professors working in Antarctica.

The research by geologists Ross Powell and Reed Scherer is funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and the NSF could cancel the upcoming research season in the Antarctic if the shutdown continues through midmonth, according to NIU.

Now is the time when operations typically ramp up in preparation for the winter research season, Powell said, including shipping the gear, food and systems that support the research. None of that can happen while the government is paralyzed.

“Within the next couple of weeks or so, it will be a critical time when we will learn if our whole project is shafted basically,” Powell said. “The operations take so long and you can’t just turn them on and off.”

The two NIU faculty members have worked for years in the Antarctic, studying ice sheet stability and subglacial life to learn more about global warming and climate change. They, along with two doctoral students, had planned to depart toward the end of the year.

Her inappropriate and partisan introduction of politics needs no further comment. The take down of government websites, e.g., Commerce, NIH, Education, was unnecessary and deliberately added to the public’s inconvenience. It will be interesting how many problems are caused when they turn all these sites back on.

I graduated from UW-La Crosse about 20 years ago. While the department was certainly left of center as a whole, the profs in the science part of geography never brought up politics. Only the cultural geo. profs brought stuff up like that in class. Several of the profs (now retired) used to discuss college politics with several of us students including myself.

One prof related how the school tried to force them to accept a female in one of the positions. They were forced to interview only females for one open position. None of the females interviewed were qualified, and none were hired at that time. But the prof I talked to was mighty upset about the whole charade. It appears the university is now meeting their goal of placing unqualified people in certain positions.

In almost every case of evident "shutdown," somebody in government operations had to take an active role in stopping things. Streaming data continues unabated, yet it has been stopped by an activist administrator. Active websites, on which payments have already been made, have been taken offline by activist administrators. Open air monuments and actual mountainsides have been closed to observers by activist administrators who have had to finally visit these places in order to obstruct their use.

In short, a whole lot of money has been spent to halt already-paid-for government in order to hold it hostage to things that the activists still want to buy.

University of Wisconsin System officials said Thursday they can offer significant tuition breaks to illegal immigrants even if lawmakers approve provisions in the state budget designed to curtail that practice.

The significant other is just as bad. You have to see the comments about “Arun” from U of Minnesota students. “Worst teacher ever”. “Do not take this class”. “Only wants you to write what he wants to hear”. “If you want to hear why Racism is wrong, but already know why it is. Take a course where you’ll learn something useful”.

Wonder if they got the "Empty Seat Night" idea from the Jacksonville Jaguars?

The WNBA was on the other night. I tried watching for the first time in a long time, because frankly, I'm not a big hoops fan but enjoy the technical aspects of the game.

Not this game though. About like I remember from last time..... watching paint dry. No wonder there's no one in the seats. If the gods of PC weren't paying attention, the league would have gone belly-up years ago.

I get occasional mailings from my engineering college ...populated 20-odd years ago by 90+% dorky white guys, and the last time I checked, it wasn't much different.

However, if you look at the pictures in the mailings, you would think that every engineer was either female, or a neutrally-ethnic male.

Also, every project was "Environmentally Friendly", "Green", or "Sustainable", rather than projects that are funded by, and further the interests of, evil corporations .... which is almost wholly the case. Plenty of stories about cute and fuzzy tree-hugging grants (directly funded by you and I) and not so many about the millions or 10's of millions in funding from Lockheed, Raytheon, etc to design better radar emitters and things that go bang.

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